HAYWARD — At 106, Sweetie has had time to ponder the existential questions of life, not just why she was put here on earth, but why for so long.

She has an answer:

“I know I was left here for some reason. This is it,” Sweetie told her daughter recently. “I was going to be the Warriors’ oldest fan.”

A year after she became a media darling — her story was picked up around the world after this newspaper first wrote about her when she was just 105 — she was back at it Sunday. Watching the game on TV in her Warriors blue knit cap and T-shirt autographed by her favorite player (Draymond Green), she didn’t shout at the screen like she did last year — her voice is down to a throaty whisper. But she still told the Warriors what to do and how to do it as they overcame an early deficit and another Stephen Curry injury to beat the Houston Rockets 121-94 in the fourth game of their playoff series.

“I told you not to worry. I told you they were going to do it,” said Sweetie, whose family wants to keep private her full name. “If I was a betting person, I would have bet.”

The past year has been a whirlwind of excitement and change for Sweetie, from watching the Warriors during the NBA finals from a VIP suite at Oracle Arena last spring to falling in January and fracturing her tibia — the first time in her 106 years she’s broken a bone.

A year ago, she needed a walker. On Sunday, she needed a wheelchair.

“It’s been terrible,” she said. “I can’t put pressure on my right leg. I can’t get up to do what I want to do.”

She’s spent her life preaching the values of self-sufficiency and independence to her three children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren — leading by example since her husband of 60 years died in 1998 — and it pains her now to have to rely on others.

Still, she tries to resist. When her daughter, Lily Toney, 76, tried to help her out of bed Sunday morning, Sweetie pushed her away, “I can do this myself.”

With the wheelchair positioned in front of the TV, she chastised Curry in the first quarter for sloppy dribbling that almost resulted in a steal and for a missed 3-pointer. “Don’t be throwing that ball too hard,” she said when the Warriors trailed the Rockets by 6 points in the first quarter. When Curry injured his knee later in the game, Sweetie wished him well: “I have all the confidence in him.”

Sweetie reserved her highest praise for the ebullient Green: “That’s the kind of ball I like,” she said as he dunked it. She’s had a soft spot for him ever since “he showed them what he had” after sitting on the bench for so long.

Born in Ennis, Texas, in 1909, Sweetie played basketball in high school and taught school for two years before starting her family. She has been a Warriors fan since the team moved from Philadelphia to the Bay Area in 1962. She and her late husband, who settled in the East Bay in 1937, had season tickets for years. She hasn’t missed watching a game in decades, she said, “not a one.”

Since her fall, Sweetie’s been bedridden for much of the past few months, but she’s certain that with more physical therapy she’ll be independent again. She perked up Sunday when positioned in her wheelchair in front of the game.

Her celebrity last year was also a gift, Toney said. When Warriors coach Steve Kerr gave her a shout-out on TV last year, Sweetie did a double take. “Did he just say ‘Sweetie?’ ” And when the Boston University Medical School learned of Sweetie’s celebrity, she was asked to participate in a longevity study.

Before her fall, whenever mother and daughter ran errands together, people asked to take selfies with her.

“She enjoys being recognized,” Toney said, “and if they don’t recognize her, she reminds them who she is.”

Sweetie has high hopes the Warriors will win another championship this year.

“Oh, yes, they’re going all the way. I tell you that.”

She credits her long life to a healthy diet, including lots of raw vegetables and not a drop of alcohol, her positive outlook and her good genes. One of Sweetie’s grandfathers lived to be 107, the other to 110.

“I don’t feel old,” Sweetie said. “I know I’m going to live to be 110. After that, I don’t have a choice.”